Hold on TIGHT winfred!!!

[winfred]

yea horible gas prices, extensive emisions testing and earthquakes are much better

I am glad we don't have those here on the west coast =p.

[Gayle]

yea horible gas prices, extensive emisions testing and earthquakes are much better

Yeah, we joke here that we don't have weather (mostly 60 -70 degrees and sunny) year round nor do we have seasons in the traditional sense. We have fog-freeway pile up season (winter), mud slide season (late winter early spring), tourist season (summer), and fire season (fall).

Here in south the San Andreas fault is pretty far inland but is coastal in Josh's part of our long state. Here we get all excited when the earth rumbles and we get to feel it. If you are walking or in a car you miss it. Here it is a cool thing rather than something we are afraid of.

Our favorite saying is "just another shitty day in paradise."

[winfred]

we don't have regular seasons here ether, fall is a couple weeks max as the trees just turn directly from green to brown, spring is that 3 weeks where everything turns yellow with pollin

[ryan roopnarine]

holy crap..
i've never read anything so melodramatic from a government agency in my whole life,
reads like a pamphlet they might have dropped over hiroshima before bombing or such
(2nd report down)


http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iwszone?Sites=:laz062

i'm not one that's inclined to run from such things, but were i mr. dixon, i think i would this time.

[Kalevera]

I ran...



To the gas station!!



After checking out my fourth favorite site on the internet, ClevelandGasPrices.com, and concluding with those on the national forum over there -- gas prices are going to skyrocket tomorrow, and maybe stay that way for a few weeks.

I put $40 in Fritz. 15 gallons. Sad. That should last me two weeks if I don't have to take any side trips.

Winfred, like you, I'd be out in the middle of it. The bicycle bit is pretty freakin' hilarious, too. Did you pedal by any little old ladies flying through the air?

best, whit

[632 Regal]

Win hasnt been on since 5:30 est. maybe he split or something.

I heard 28 foot storm surge...is that even possible?

[Kalevera]

Win hasnt been on since 5:30 est. maybe he split or something.

I heard 28 foot storm surge...is that even possible?

of COURSE it's possible, Jeff!! Especially if godzilla is behind all of this!

Rawwwwr!


best, whit

[Gayle]

I think he was on about noon. If anything, I would guess his IP might be down.

[ryan roopnarine]

yeah, louisiana is kinda a BIG @ss chokepoint for petroleum coming into the US, gas prices are gonna get fun...
i remember in FL, this time last year, gas prices went from about $1.80 to $2.30 for premium overnight, and nowhere had power, so even if you could afford gas, it didn't mean you could buy it.
just went and filled up with "discount" premium, $2.67/gallon. i have to drive for work three days this week, not a wise decision in retrospect.

[ryan roopnarine]

this is the text of the official gov-ment's weather service (not the hurricane center, though) if you are too lazy to look at the link:


EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA

DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

LAZ038-040-050-056>070-MSZ080>082-290300-
ASSUMPTION-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-
LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-
ORLEANS-ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-
TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-
UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005


INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
PERSIST FOR THE NEXT 26 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL
ONSET AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE COAST AND BY 3 AM CLOSER TO THE NEW
ORLEANS METRO AREA AND PERSIST FOR 9 TO 15 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND GUSTS
AROUND 175 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA BY DAYBREAK MONDAY.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET!

wild and stuff, there.